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Caring for a blackberry in the fall is not particularly difficult and requires standard actions: pruning, top dressing, shelter for the winter. This hybrid is gaining popularity among gardeners every year. The shrub brings an abundant harvest of large and tasty berries, and is used for decorative purposes. Culture is not considered whimsical and caring for it is not particularly difficult.
Ezhemalina – a berry with a pleasant sour-sweet taste
How to take care of a blackberry in the fall
The main measures for caring for a plant in the fall are considered to be the formation of bushes, fertilizing, and disease prevention. In addition, in most regions of Our Country, zhemmalina needs shelter. Since the crop brings the crop almost to the very frost, the preparation of the bushes for winter is carried out in late autumn.
Trimming
The first thing in the autumn care of the blackberry is the pruning of the bush. In September or closer to mid-autumn, immediately after fruiting, it is time to remove all dried, damaged, broken and old shoots. All dry and diseased branches should be cut off, which will avoid the multiplication of microbes. You also need to free the bush from excess shoots, as they take nutrients from the plant. The young growth should also be cut off, because in winter it still will not survive. In order to rejuvenate the bush, all shoots of the previous year are removed. The procedure is best done in late autumn, but before the arrival of frost. If you miss this moment, then the work will be more difficult to do, because under the influence of negative temperatures, the stems of the plant will become brittle.
Its productivity directly depends on the correct formation of the raspberries.
Loosening and weeding
In autumn, the raspberry tree continues to need moisture. If the weather is hot, then watering is carried out as the earth dries up, then the beds are loosened and weeded. In late autumn, after pruning the bushes, all the garbage, fallen leaves are collected from the site and weeds are again pulled out and loosened to a depth of 10 cm.
Many gardeners, after weeding, mulch the soil where the blackberry grows. To do this, use peat, straw or rotten foliage.
How to feed a blackberry in the fall
Ezhemalina prefers to grow on loose and fertile land, so it should be fertilized several times a year when planting. Fertilizing in the fall has a big impact on the next year’s harvest. In addition, by the end of summer, the plant absorbs many useful substances from the ground, and for its good wintering, their amount in the soil should be replenished. Perfect for this:
- peat;
- urea;
- manure or chicken manure;
- potassium compounds.
At the beginning of autumn, it is advisable to sow green manure in the aisle between the rows of raspberries. When they mature, they will be an excellent top dressing.
In autumn, it is best to apply fertilizers with a significant amount of potassium and phosphorus.
Disease and Pest Prevention
The key to a high-quality and plentiful harvest next year will be the treatment of the plot and bushes of the raspberries from insects and diseases. In order to prevent the reproduction of pests that live in foliage and soil, after harvesting, it is recommended to weed the beds, loosen the ground, cut off and burn diseased shoots. Also, many experienced gardeners are advised to treat plantings with insecticides. The following tools have proven themselves well:
- Intavir;
- Funaphone;
- Actellic.
When harmful insects are found, fungicides are used.
So that moss and lichen do not grow on the beds with yemalina, in the fall it is recommended to water the soil with iron or copper sulphate. For the prevention of diseases, the bushes are sprayed with special solutions, decoctions of horsetail and nettle have proven themselves well.
Do I need to cover the crescent for the winter
Shelter for the winter in many regions of the country is a mandatory procedure for caring for a plant, even though it tolerates temperatures as low as -35 ° C. In the first few years after planting, it is necessary to warm the culture in any place where it grows.
How to cover the yemalin for the winter in Siberia and the Moscow region
To prepare the yemalin for winter in the Moscow region and Siberia, the gardener will need to set aside some time for work. It should be carried out towards the end of autumn, it does not cause any particular difficulties, but it is recommended to do everything in accordance with the requirements. It should be noted that in regions with heavy snowfalls, the amount of covering material should not be very large, and where there is little snow, its volume is increased.
When to cover the cranberries for the winter
So that in the fall the raspberry vines do not sag when warm weather returns, it is recommended to cover it immediately before the onset of frost, at a time when the temperature at night has already dropped below zero. In different regions, this happens at different times, which should be taken into account, but on average they are guided by the last week of October, the first half of November. At the same time, the bushes are covered when the snow cover has not yet been established.
To work on the insulation of the blackberry in the fall, they break at a stable negative temperature
Shelter material
When sheltering raspberries at the time of preparation for winter in the Moscow region and other areas, different materials are used. Effective and breathable spruce branches can become a traditional insulation for culture. It is laid in a thick layer on shoots pressed to the ground, and covered with non-woven material from above for reliability. Corn leaves laid on the crop in autumn will help to protect the raspberries from the cold. The film is also a good covering material, only the beds should be mulched before using it.
The jellyfish winters wonderfully covered with non-woven fabric (spunbon or lutrasil). Even temperatures below -35 ° C under such a shelter will not be fearful for the plant.
Shelter process
The algorithm for the process of sheltering raspberry bushes in the fall is as follows:
- The branches of the shrub remaining after pruning are removed from the supports and carefully laid on the surface of the soil or in pre-dug shallow trenches.
- A small layer of earth, rotted humus or spruce branches is poured over the vines.
- Next, the lashes are covered with non-woven material and pressed with bricks, boards or pipes.
After the snow falls and the structure created by it completely falls asleep, the frost of the raspberries will be completely fearless.
Multi-layer shelter gives almost one hundred percent protection to the plant
Conclusion
Caring for yemalina in the fall is not particularly difficult, but it requires time from the gardener. If all the procedures are performed correctly and within the required time frame, then the plant will endure frosts perfectly and next year will give a rich harvest of berries, which contain a huge amount of vitamins and nutrients and are widely used in cooking.
